The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.

It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.

I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.

There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

You can learn from everybody.

I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.